Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-22

understanding bell.
Great interest Is being taken In the Ruby
district, Black lille, Of late.
At Belle Fourche the snow IS a foot deep
and the cattle and other stock are suffering
greatly.
The salary Of the attorney Of MinDehaha
county has been cut down from 1920 10
800.
The Western Union Telegraph company has
placed instruments In the Bismarc capitol
building.
Vim. Osmotherly, living near Watertovn,
was found frozen to death in a snowdriit near
his claim.
Judge Mcconnell has appointed John
Christian, Of Kandiotta, clerk Of the court
OF Sargent county To succeed Judge Vail, re-
moved.
Two members Of the Rapid City band
froze their hsnds while parading the streets
January Z.
The time for opening the school of mines at
Rapid City has been definitely fixed at Feb
ruary 10th.
Saturday WAS the coolest day ever known at
Huron. The thermometer stood 43 below
zero In the morning.
The saloon license expired in Lincoln on
the 31st ult. The people of that county have
voted 10 issue 10 more.
The Methodist and Congregational churches
Of Deadwood have been h. wing union services
with good results.
The Parsons mine has developed a twelve
inch vein of rich ore, which runs from sixty
to ninety ounces per ton.
Bishop Bowman of st. Louis will succeed
the Rev. Dr.. Pardec as president OF the Dako-
Ia Methodist university.
A firm In New Salem purchased 5000
worth OF bones from farmers during last sum
mer and shipped them east.
The snnual report of the public schools Of
Mitchell show ALI average attendance OF 80
per cent on an enrolment of 365.
A Ger IAN farmer named Nick Keifler, liv-
ing near WATERFOWL, has been arrested
charged with raping his sixteen-yesr-old
daughter.
Mail and passeng er service on the Grandview
and Fort Randall line was stopped Thursday
by foreclosure on the horses of the operators
Of the line.
The Rapids City library association is out
Of debt aud has a balance in its treasury OF
$500, 5000 in real estate and 81 500 in books
and furniture.
Cyrus Quear, a brakeman on the Sioux City
and Dakota division Of the Milwaukee road,
fell through the railroad bridge at Beloit on
Saturday, breaking his leg.
Rev. DR.. Pardec resigns his place as presi-
dent OF the board OF directors Of the Dakota
Methodist university and Bishop Bowman, of
st. Louis, takes his place.
The railroad 10 completely blochaded al
Brownsville, all trains are abandoned and the
iron horses have been put in their stalls to re-
main until spring opens,
At Huron on Saturday night, Judge
cervice at a farewell banquet rendered by the
clerks of the various counties OF the district.
Superintendent Weard, of the Congre-
gstional mission, is In Ashton, where he will
receive a proposition to donate the $40, 600
court house at that place to his society for an
academy.
! The Watertown land office claims to have
transacted more business during the last quar-
ter than any other land Office ia the territory.
The receipts of the Office for that period were
s75,7i6 so.
During the past year there have been SIC
limitations into the Odd Fellows lodges of
Dakota, the order now numbering 1855. The
number relieved was l24. The total revenue
of the lodges in the territory is 81, 99j.S5.
Griggs county has a $50, 900 court house
that was erected over two years ago, but not a
term Of court has been held In 1t. The only
hope of putting 1t into practical use lies in the
bill for two additional judges to become a
law.
Tie second annual meeting OF the Farmers
Mutual Protective Association Insurance
company, of Plankinton, begun it's session at
that city on Monday. The company is max
ing great preparations for the coming season,
aud has hopes of doing a big business. The
citizens OF Plankipton have Joined members
of the association in entertaining visitors,
and royalty they are doing 1t.
Grand Forks bar unanimously signed and
forwarded a memorial to Gov. Church asking
the appointment OF Judge Pratt as attorney
general. Judge Pratt is 4 former New Yorker.
He prscticed at Detroit, where he was counse
In the case Of the notorious DR.. Buchanan, Of
Philadelphia, OF medical college fame. He
made a splendid canvass for Day last fall, and
his appointment would please North Dakota
generally.
Grand Forks special 10: This morning a
young lady, Gertie Karlsefne, was brought In
from the prairie, having been rescued from
death in the snowbsnks in yesterdays pitiless
blizzard. She had left h,r hotel in the morn
Ing In n fit Of alteration, ihinly clad, and
gone Eve miles southeast, with the wild snow
peltipg in her face, and finally, nearly ex-
hausted, wss discovered by Owen L~avalle, a
farmer, and taken TO shelter. Her feet are
froeAn, but she can DO saved.